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Nodeki WordPress Managed Hosting

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February 18, 2013

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It’s hard to come up with creative titles for a growing industry that we want to cover this year – in other words, I believe that managed hosting is going to see a huge growth spike this year as more and more WordPress consultants, theme shops, and independent providers launch their own managed hosting solutions. And we want to continue to canvas and notify you guys of the new services that launch – but most of them, at this point in time, aren’t doing anything “out of the ordinary” or appear to be doing anything necessarily innovative. That’s not a bad […]

Envato Reveals Microlancer, Freelance Service

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February 18, 2013

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Can you tell how excited Collis Ta’eed is to announce his new little startup project within the confines of Envato? Yeah, it’s pretty obvious. This new initiative, Microlancer, is still very much underwraps for the time being but they’ve made the big announcement so as to get feedback as well as other excited individuals to sign up for the beta. What is the service? It doesn’t take a genius to guess: Microlancer is going to be a new way for freelancers to connect with buyers who are interested in getting small-scale creative jobs done simply, transparently, safely and quickly. We […]

Dear Client: Seriously, Show Me the Money

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February 17, 2013

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This is a co-written piece by Chris Lema and Shane Pearlman. Shane is a partner at Modern Tribe Inc. and leads indie teams in UX/UI, web, mobile & product design. In his spare time, Chris coaches startups on new product development. It took Boeing 8 months to pay up the first time I worked with them. eBay took nearly 6 months once and SAP wasn’t far behind that. When you are hustling and trying to make sure that your family is cared for, being a freelancer can be glorious, and it can be a hairball of stress. Since 2001, Chris has been stiffed once […]

Preserving a Blog for a Friend Who's Passed?

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February 16, 2013

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This exact question was brought up here on WordPress sub-Reddit: Like I said in the title, two dear friends just passed away, and their travel blog is now in limbo. I know that they hosted it themselves (godaddy, I think) and that recently they had problems with some malicious code issues. The websites front page is up but many links to deeper pages are not working. Does anyone know of a way that their page can be protected from further attacks and preserved/memorialised… Anyone here have knowledge of this? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks T Ps I can dig out more […]

Behind the Scenes: #Headsdown

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February 15, 2013

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r-so7d6hOA When you work long enough with some people you start to develop cultural habits or signs that help facilitate productivity and team work. These things aren’t written down anywhere and they are hard to identify at times but they exist and they are there sometimes for the good and sometimes they can be very detrimental. But when they help enhance productivity, creativity, and team work, then you have a winner. One obvious and explicit thing that happens with our team is what we call the #headsdown mode – we may even tell each other in our back-channel that we […]

WordAds: Make Some Money via WordPress.com

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February 15, 2013

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For the longest time you couldn’t actually make any direct income from your WordPress.com blog – until they released WordAds back in late 2011. Since then it’s gained a lot of steam and added more and more users among their ranks. WordAds, for those that don’t know, allows you to directly reap the benefit of the traffic that you get through the placement of advertisements in your content. They use their partner organizations, like Google Adsense, to provide these targeted ads to your readers. You then get some money via Paypal for those placements based on performance. You can start and […]

BuddyPress 1.7 Beta 1 Released

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February 15, 2013

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Anxious to get your hands of the newest version of BuddyPress 1.7? Well, it’s here – and if you’ve been following the development at all then you know this one’s a doozy: BuddyPress 1.7 is likely to be our most revolutionary release to date. With it will come full theme compatibility with almost all existing WordPress themes, making it easier than ever to get your community up and running quickly. It’s in Beta, so be careful when you install it on an active site, but for sure if you’re starting a fresh new BuddyPress site then you’ll want to actually […]

WPRemote: Easily Monitor, Manage WordPress Sites

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February 15, 2013

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It seems there are more and more players in the WordPress management space than I had originally thought – for example, have you seen WPRemote? It’s another web service that will help you manage multiple WordPress-powered sites and/or blogs for you, keeping you posted on the updates needed for all of them in a single dashboard. It’s very much like ManageWP that also does similar things. I quickly took WPRemote for a spin, got signed up quickly, and was instantly liking the backend UI and general look and feel – it was clean and approachable. But that’s where I started to […]

Are You Happy with the WordCamp Guidelines?

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February 14, 2013

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If not then you need to speak up, now, especially if you’ve been a past WordCamp organizer. It’s been nearly 2 years since the WordCamp guidelines were originally published and haven’t been touched since then. A lot has happened and a lot has changed, as well as newer and better practices and perspectives, so it’s time for a serious refresh! Late last year it was announced that a group was organized to review them and a survey was passed out for those to share their experiences and provide a feedback loop. The deadline is fast approaching – 2 weeks from today on February […]

Behind the Scenes – A Drink for You

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February 14, 2013

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Things are moving fast now as we try to get things ready for our big VIP after party for WordCamp Atlanta in only a few weeks time (is it almost here already?!) and we finished up most of the kitchen late last week. It’s all coming together finally. One of the things that we did was create a unique and simple experience with our very long coffee bar table so that people could hang out, drink coffee, using either the quick and easy commercial-grade Keurig or slow (but better) Chemex, and do some publishing, software development, whatever. Just bring your notebook […]

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